Murillo, 26, will join the club after passing a medical exam, Barcelona says. The loan, for the remainder of the season, gives Barcelona the option to buy Murillo for 25 million euros (28.6 million dollars).

He has only played three matches for Valencia this season and played for Inter Milan for two years before leaving at the start of last season.

Barcelona is without injured defenders Samuel Umtiti and Thomas Vermaelen, with Gerard Pique and Clement Lenglet its only available center backs.

Just three days after Carroll scored the bicycle-kick goal of the year (so we thought), here comes Murillo, Inter Milan’s 24-year-old Colombian striker, to steal his thunder (below video). The fact he did it directly from a corner kick, with the ball traveling roughly 40 yards before flinging his body into the air and striking the ball so cleanly, (somehow) trumps Carroll’s accomplishment from Saturday.

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The Serie A table looks like someone took all the teams, stuck them in a dice roller, shook em up, and poured them out.

Atop the table is Inter Milan, who won 1-0 over Chievo Verona this morning as the club has won four straight to start the season, the first time since the 2002/03 season they’ve accomplished that.

Mauro Icardi scored the game’s only goal just before halftime as Roberto Mancini’s squad moved well atop the Serie A table with 12 points – nobody within five points of them, although five teams below them still have yet to play today.

The surprising part of this season has been the back line. Inter has conceded just a single goal in four league matches so far, on the road at Carpi in matchweek two. All four of their wins have come by a one-goal margin, with a clear emphasis on defensive solidity.

Could this mean better things to come for Inter this season? The Milan giants have struggled in recent years – alongside their Milan counterparts – finishing outside the league’s top four for four years running, with an eighth-placed finish last season. The fact both Inter and AC Milan are struggling at the same time has almost pushed the two into a race to see who can recover first, but also has forced the two clubs to be fiscally responsible in their rebuild.

The wildly successful back line that Mancini has used to start the season has been anchored by 23-year-old Columbian center-back Jeison Murillo, new this summer having come over from Granada. He has been partnered with Brazilian veteran Miranda and Chilean Gary Medel, and the combinations have worked wonders.

Can Inter maintain its success and hold off a number of relatively new faces atop the Serie A table? They get a true test over the next few weeks with Fiorentina, Sampdoria, and Juventus in their next three matches, a stretch which will likely signal how their season will truly progress.

Eduardo Vargas scored the goal of the tournament — his second of two against Peru in the semifinals — to go along with another two in the group stage (vs. Ecuador and Mexico).

Paolo Guerrero did most of his damage in a quarterfinal victory over Bolivia (hat trick) before bagging once more as Chile bowed out to the eventual winners in the semis.

Paolo Guerrero, Peru

Best Young Player: Jeison Murillo (Colombia)

23-year-old Jeison Murillo, who will complete his move to Inter Milan ahead of the 2015-16 season, scored just once this tournament — Colombia’s only goal in four games, the game-winner against Brazil in group game no. 2.

Jeison Murillo, Colombia

Golden Gloves: Claudio Bravo (Chile) — 4 goals conceded

Having conceded just once since the group stage (three goals allowed in a 3-3 draw with Mexico in group game no. 2) while making a pair of stops in the tournament-deciding penalty shootout against Argentina, Claudio Bravo was a no-brainer to take home the award for best goalkeeper.